Dmitry Dmitriyenko, governor of the Murmansk region in Russia's north-west where 33 of the men come from, urged friends and families not to lose hope, but admitted the chance of the men surviving in the 1C 33.8F water is approaching zero.

What was the Daily Mail trying to do, for instance, when it castigated the Tricycle Theatre in north-west London for writing to prison inmates seeking their experiences for a piece of political theatre about the summer riots?